Manifolding sales-book.



E. K. BOTTLE.

MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK.

APPLICATION nun an 14, 1912.

1,107,577, Patented Aug. 18, 1914.

Z ATTORNEYS I uni-TE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDXVARD KIRBY BOTTLE, OF NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN SALES BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED, OF TORONTO, CANADA, A CORPQRATION OF ONTARIO,

I CANADA.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I EDWARD KIRBY' Bor- TLE, a citizen of the United States, residiin at Elmira, in the county of Chemung and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifolding Sales-Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to manifolding sales books, and with regard to certain more specific features thereof, to triplicate, sales books.

One of the objects of the present invention to provide a simple and compact manifolding sales book which will be easy to manipulate and cheap to manufacture.

Fl e object is to provide a manifold- 7 bar-1i which will be light in weight and durable in construction.

Another object is to provide an improved maiifrlding pad to be used either alone or with. other adswhereby two or more rec ords of? a trai -ticn may be easily obtained.

A further obiect is to provide a device of the firs above nientioned character adapted to eliminate the possibility of error in the numbering of the leaves during the manufacture of the device and also to prevent fraud when in use.

Other objectswill be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

' The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following claims.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein is shown one of various possible embodiments of this invention,l*igure l is a perspective view showing the complete device in operative position, certain parts being torn away for the sake of clearness: Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken on the line X-X of Fig. 1 the book being partly used: and Fig. 3 is a central transverse section of the complete device in closed position.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the different views of the drawing. i

Referring now to the drawing in detail,

MANIFOLDING SALES-BOOK.-

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 14. 1912.

Patented Aug. 18, 1914.

Serial No. 697,104.

The pad A is preferably made from a con-c tinuous web folded back and forth upon itself to form a plurality of sets of original and duplicate leaves 4 and respectively. These leaves are bound together along one of their side edges to form a stub by means of staples 6 passing through one end 7 of the binder C, which binder extends downwardly and under the pad forming a bottom cover 8, thence upwardly around the opposite side and across the top formingthe top cover 9. The leaves of the pad A are separated from the stub by weakening lines of perforations 10 in order that the leaves may be easily and quickly detached.

An advantage of having a continuous web folded in the zigzag form resides in the fact that the leaves forming the original and duplicate leaves may be consecutively numbored. with greater accuracy, and when bound in the pad greatly reduce. the possi bility of one or more of the leavesbeing lost or the chance of having duplicate leaves bearing the same number. Mistakes in the loss of leaves often cause trouble when checking up the slips at night, when the clerks are obliged to account for each leaf. If, on the other hand. two sets of leaves have. the same number. a dishonest clerk could appropriate the sales money and destroy the record of one of the transactions. There are, however, objections to a continuously folded book, inasmuch as it. necessitates the tearing of the leaves at both ends as well as from the side in books made from a continuous web'folded in zigzag form and bound along one of the side edges. In order to eliminate this objection, the present pad A- This may be conveniently done by cutting the end edge of the pad to the extent of a sixteenth of an inch, for example, which will remove the'folds at that end. It will thus be seen that the padcomprises a plurality of sets of original and duplicate leaves, eachset being connected at one end edge only, separated by a line of perforations 12 in order that the leaves may be conveniently separated from each other when removed from the pad.

The pad A is mounted on a suitable back 13 of relatively stiff material which is bound in the device by means of the staples 6. Be tween the back 13 and the bottom cover 8 are provided one or more spacing members let to provide sufiicicnt space between the back 13 and the bottom cover for the triplicate pad B when the device is not in use or when folded as shown in Fig. 3. A scored line 15 in the-cover 8 permits the pad A to be swung upwardly away from the cover 8 in order that the triplicate pad B or the leaves thereof may be placed in position therebeneath or conveniently removed w therefrom as desired. The scored lines 16 at the opposite sideof the bottom cover permit the upper cover 9 to be conveniently folded over into the position shown in Fig. 3.

Secured in any desired manner to the bottom cover 8 is a back 17 for the pad B, most of the leaves of which, when the book is first used, are turned back over the cover 9, as shown in Fig. 1, the top leaf in that position being placed between the original and duplicate leaves 4 and 5 of the pad A and above a, double-faced carbon sheet 18 which is bound with the leaves of the original pad. It will thus be seen that, as an impression is made upon the leaf 4, it will be duplicated upon the back of the leaf 19 of the pad B, which leaf is preferably made of tissue paper in order that the inscription may be easily read therethrough and upon the upper surface of the duplicate leaf After completing the recording of the transaction the stub of the pad A is pressed downwardly to swing the pad upwardly about the scored line 15 which automatically withdraws the leaf 19 and permits the same to fall into filed position, as shown by leaves 20.

A convenient method of operating a manifolding device of this character is substaniially as follows; Assuming one transaction to have already taken place, as represented by the set of leaves detached from the stub airing the perf rations 10, and the book in the position shown in Fig. 3, the cover 9 is turned back and the pad B placed in position hown in Fig. 1, the last leaf 90 thereof, upon which the previous transaction has lVbig. rm a l I'Onmiiilllf'l ill iliO S'PRCQ bGlQY the liiHii l5, the pad A. The triplicate leaf 19 is inserted between the original and d plicaic leave -'l and 3 and above the FR?" 3 bon sheet 1 then th book is ready for use. said sets of leaves being separa ed from the 1 0 After completing the transaction the stub 7 is pressed downwardly to withdraw the sheet 19, as above described, and the original and duplicate leaves, as well as the original leaf of the next set, are drawn outwardly and downwardly, assuming the book to be in the position shown in Fig. 1, which severs these leaves from the stub. By removing the next original leaf in this manner the carbon sheet 18 falls into operative position covering the next duplicate leaf so that the next leaf of the pad B may be placed thereover. The original and duplicate leaves are then separated along the perforated line 12 and disposed of according to the rules of the estabdishment and the next original leaf turned back into operative position. The device is then in position shown in Fig. 1 and is ready for the recording of subsequent transactions. It is thus seen that this invention provides a manifolding sales book of simple and com pact construction adapted to accomplish,

among others, all the objects and advantages above set forth.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all mat ter contained in the above description or shown in theraccompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and notin a limiting sense? I Having described my invention, what I claim as new and'desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A manifolding pad, comprising a plurality of sets of original and duplicate leaves bound together along one of the side edges, i

the leaves of each set being, connected along one end edge only.

2. A manifolding pad, comprising a .plurality of sets of original and duplicate leaves bound together along one of the side edges, and manifolding means connected with said leaves, the leaves of eachset of leaves being connected along one end edge only.

3. A manifolding pad, comprising ashee folded back and forth upon itself to form a plurality of sets of original and duplicate leaves, the, leaves of each set being connected along one end edge and having their opposite end edges free, and binding means for the pad along one side edge.

4. A manifolding pad, comprising a sheet folded back and forth upon itself to form a plurality of sets of original and duplicate leaves, a fold at one end of each set being cut, whereby each set is connected at its opposite end only, and a carbon sheet bound u ith the leaves of said pad.

5. A manifoldiug pad. comprising a' plurality of sets of original and duplicate leaves bound together along 0% side edge,

stub by lines of perforations and each origi-, nal leaf being connected with its respective duplicate leaf at one end edge only.

ti. A. manifolding pad, comprising a plurality of sets of original and duplicate leaves bound together along one side edge, said sets of leaves being separated from the stub by lines of perforations. each set being connected at one end edge, the opposite end edges being free, and a carbon sheet bound with the leaves of said pad and adapted to be interposed between the leaves of the top set when the original leaf is severed along the perforations separatingit from the stub.

7. In a manifolding device, in combination. a pad of original and duplicate leaves bound together along one side edge, each original leaf being'connectcd with its duplicate leaf at one end edge only, and a triplicate pad connected with said device, adjacent one of the edges of said first mentioned pad, whereby the leaves may be interposed between the original and duplicate leaves.

8. In a manifolding device, in combina tion, a pad formed by a plurality of sets of original and duplicate leaves bound together along one side edge, manifolding means connected with said device, a bottom cover for said device, and a triplicate pad connected with said cover, .whereby the leaves may be interposed between the original and duplicate leaves and in operative relation to the inanifolding means.

9. In a n'ianifolding device, in combination. a pad formed by a plurality of sets of original and duplicate leaves, each set being connected at one of-its end edges, a carbon sheet, a bottom cover bound with said leaves along one of the side edges, and a triplicate pad connected with the cover, whereby the lea ves may be interposed between the original and duplicate leaves of the first pad and sub-:equenlly filed after the recording of the transaction beneath the first-mentioned pad and above the cover.

10. In a, manifolding device, in combination, a pad formed from a continuous web folded into a plurality of sets of original I and duplicate leaves, the folds at one end edge of said pad being cut, a binder bound with the leaves of said pad along one of the side edges thereof and extending therebeneath, and means associated with said binder permitting the pad to be swung upl wardly and away therefrom. l

11. In a manifolding device, in combination, a pad formed from a continuous web folded into a plurality of sets of original and duplicate leaves, the folds at one end edge of said pad being cut, a bottom cover connected with said pad alon one of the side edges thereof and extending therebeneath, means associated with said cover permitting the pad to be swung upwardl and away' therefrom, and a triplicate pa connected with said cover, the leaves of said pad being adapted to be interposed between thed sets of leaves of said first-mentioned p 12. In a manifolding device, in combination, a pad of original and duplicate leaves, a binder secured along one of the side edges and extending beneath said pad, spacing means between the bottom of said pad and said binder, and a second pad secured to said binder adapted to rest in the space provided by said spacing means when not in use.

13. In a manifolding device, in combination, a pad of original and duplicate leaves, the leaves of each set being integrally conneeted together at an end edge only, sa (1 leaves being bound together along their side edges, manifolding means connected with said device, and a triplicate pad, the leaves of which are ada ted to be interposed between the original and duplicate leaves of said first-mentioned pad.

14. In a manifoldmg device, in combination, a, pad comprising a plurality of sets of ori ina-l and duplicate leaves bound togetor along a side edge, the leaves of each set being integrally connectedv at one end edge only, a carbon sheet bound with the leaves of said pad above the same, a ba beneath the leaves of said pad, a binder adapted to form a bottom and top cover for the device, and a triplicate pad secured to said binder, the leaves of which are adapted to be interposed between the original and duplicate leaves adjacent a carbon sheet and subsequently filed after the recording of the transaction between the back and the bottom cover of the device.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE.

Witnesses:

A. L. Guu'rnnnn, JOSHUA TATE. 

